Albums that changed your life
musicismylife78
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Come on people, what is that album(s) that altered everything? That altered your views? That felt like it was written about you? That encapsulated your feelings? Made you see the world in a new way?
There are just so many albums that fit that criteria for me, its hard to narrow it down to just a few. I think each of these albums were a part of a puzzle. Each were a part of said puzzle, but they by no means make up the entire puzzle.
I would say Transatlanticism and Plans by Death Cab both had huge impacts.
Nick Drake's Pink Moon, specifically Place to Be.
Modest Mouse-Good News
The Shins-Oh Inverted, Chutes
Damien Rice-O
Iron and Wine-Endless Numbered
There are just so many albums that fit that criteria for me, its hard to narrow it down to just a few. I think each of these albums were a part of a puzzle. Each were a part of said puzzle, but they by no means make up the entire puzzle.
I would say Transatlanticism and Plans by Death Cab both had huge impacts.
Nick Drake's Pink Moon, specifically Place to Be.
Modest Mouse-Good News
The Shins-Oh Inverted, Chutes
Damien Rice-O
Iron and Wine-Endless Numbered
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Here is my list:
Sam Roberts - The Inhuman Condition
Richard Ashcroft - Alone with Everybody
The Tragically Hip - Day For Night
AFI - Sing the Sorrow
Seaweed - Four but more importantly Spanaway <-- Spanaway was for me what Joshua Tree is for several people.
Los Angeles 10.7.2009
All The Beatles albums I listened to before the age of 10 and continue to today; to be specific, it would be Rubber Soul. A definite shift in their music and lyrics for sure. Has my favorite song of all time, "Nowhere Man."
Michael Jackson - Thriller (was addicted to him when I was 10 in 2001 and have always listened to him a lot even before his death)
Led Zeppelin - IV (my father had the vinyl and loved every song on it and still do)
Pearl Jam - Yield (I think Yield lovers know why; I absolutely love "In Hiding)
U2 - The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby (two completely different styles and both great songwriting)
Radiohead - OK Computer and Kid A (OK - the shift to their new sound. Kid A - completely redid music)
The White Stripes - Every album (the rawness of the debut album, bluesiness of De Stijl, the artistic genius of White Blood Cells and Elephant, the 180 degree opposite sounding of Get Behind Me Satan, and the return to their sound of Icky Thump)
Those I can say have affected my life and musical tastes.
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Nevermind
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Siamese Dream
Rage Against The Machine
Fully Completely
Superunknown
Automatic For The People
Zooropa
Beatles White Album
'The Joshua Tree' completely transformed the style of music I was listening to. The same can be said for '....And Justice For All' as it started my love of metal!
The Bends is still, to this day, the album that has had the most impact on me. I'd never been so emotionally affected by music before and only Pearl Jam have managed it since.
Speaking of which, I have to say Pearl Jam s/t had a massive impact, as it was the album that started the ball rolling for me and made me realise what I'd been missing out on!!
Beatles Let It Be (I was raised from toddlerhood on this)
Rush A Farewell to Kings & 2112 (the reason I survived adolescence)
The Clash London Calling (being angry about the status quo motivates action)
Van Morrison Astral Weeks (too visceral to explain)
live on 2 legs and vs got me into pearl jam in 06. getting into pj is life changine
late bloomer
Tool - Lateralus
Rage Against the Machine
The Doors
That's it probably. No Pearl Jam as I have to admit that I knew them way too late. :( But if there would be one of Pearl Jam it'd be Ten.
Van Halen - 1984. I didn't listen to rock music at all until I heard this when I was 12. I was obsessed with Van Halen for years afterward.
BOS-9/28/04,9/29/04,6/28/08,6/30/08, 9/5/16, 9/7/16, 9/2/18
MTL-9/15/05, OTT-9/16/05
PHL-5/27/06,5/28/06,10/30/09,10/31/09
CHI-8/2/07,8/5/07,8/23/09,8/24/09
HTFD-6/27/08
ATX-10/4/09, 10/12/14
KC-5/3/2010,STL-5/4/2010
Bridge School-10/23/2010,10/24/2010
PJ20-9/3/2011,9/4/2011
OKC-11/16/13
SEA-12/6/13
TUL-10/8/14
:shock: :shock: i think that makes 3 of us..
Ten for me is the best album for impact...but is vs was not what it was...pearl jam would not be where they are (i think) now
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The Beatles - Sgt Pepper
Huey Lewis and the News - Spot
Kenny Rogers - Coward of the County
then I turned 10
KISS - Alive
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Montley Crue - Girls, Girls, Girls
then I turned 14
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Maurader and Low End Theory
Then I turned 16
Pearl Jam - Ten
Metallica - ...And Justice for all
others
Van Morrions - Moondance
Jim Croche - Photographas and memories
White Stipes - all
Led Zeppelin - Baby I'm Gonna Leave You and Dazed and Confused
But the number one life changer for me was YIELD and I didn't even get it until I was like 24 or 25 years old - bought LO2L and then picked up Yeild
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2008 Bonnaroo - 2009 Philly 2&3 - 2010 MSG 1&2
Counting Crows - August and Everything After (This album compelled me to marry my wife)
PJ - Vs and then Yield (Vs blew my mind as a kid and made me realize how incredible PJ was and Yield blew my mind again when I was a freshman in college. Yield made me love PJ again and I've never looked back)
Radiohead - The Bends (Like nothing I'd ever heard before, this was in steady rotation in high school)
STP - Purple (high school and college soundtrack)
Miles Davis - Birth of Cool (broadening my musical horizons in college and discovering jazz)
Led Zep - Zoso (time to get stoned)
There are a bunch more but these are the ones that were played and either changed my life in some way or were listened to when a major life event was taking place.
Holy crap, I'm not the only Zooropa fan out there? I love that album, and haven't met anyone else who can even tolerate it.
As for me:
The Wall
Ten
OK Computer
Each one has had an equally profound influence on me, and I'm yet to get sick of any of them. I know a lot of people on this board complain about Even Flow and Jeremy, but without those songs there may never have been "Pearl Jam" as we know them. I could listen to Jeremy every day for the rest of my life and never complain - Jeff's bass line is a rock solid stud.
sticky fingers
Ended my "shut-in" phase during my first year of high school and inspired me to play guitar)
Who's Next - The Who
I'd listened to the album 100 times, but after I walked out on my job as a Service Adviser, I put it on and Baba put everything in perspective. The next day I enrolled in college.)
Rattle and Hum - U2
I don't know, it just did.
-my dad after hearing Not for You for the first time on SNL .
Ozzy Osbourne - The Ozzman Cometh
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Dr. Dre - 2001
Audioslave - Audioslave
The Darkness - Permission To Land
Led Zeppelin - IV
Neil Young - After The Goldrush
Pearl Jam - Ten, Vs., Vitalogy, Yield
The Who - Who's Next
The ones bolded being the most influential to me.
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
2007 - London
2009 - London, Manchester, London
2010 - Dublin, Belfast, London
2011 - Alpine Valley x2
2012 - Isle of Wight, Manchester x2
Led Zeppelin II-page's guitar on this record got me into rock music
Pink Floyd the wall-masterpiece
Ozzy Osbourne-Blizzard of oz-Randy Rhodes!
Van Halen-Van Halen-This band reached its peak with its first record IMHO (although Fair Warning kicks ass)
Grateful Dead-Best of Skeletons from the closet-the beginning of a very long relationship with Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir
REM-reckoning-introduction to college radio
Beastie Boys-Pauls Boutique-I couldnt put this record down for months after I got it-and it tought me to appreciate rap/hip hop
As far as Pearl Jam goes, Vs. was also the one that hooked me.
Dublin, Belfast & Werchter 2010
Amsterdam 1 & 2 & Oslo 2012
PJ Ten
Concrete Blonde Bloodletting
My Morning Jacket Z
The Beatles Sgt Peppers
The Cure Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
David Bowie Diamond Dogs
EV Into The Wild
Nirvana Nevermind
Ryan Adams Rock And Roll
The Who Quadrophenia
Alice In Chains Jar Of Flies
The Dresden Dolls Yes, Virginia...
I had "where have you been all of my life" moments with each of these.
Dirty Day on Zooropa is my favourite U2 song. Absolutely love the Bukowski quote "These days, days, days, run away, like horses over the hill" at the end of the song. Gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.
Yield- Got me through a difficult time getting over a stupid girl
Achtung Baby- See Yield (thank god im getting married and dont have to deal with this anymore
pearl jam "ten" (cassette, was my parents')
pearl jam "yield"
soundgarden "superunknown"
tool "aenima"
the roots "phrenology"
ben harper "fight for your mind"
the mars volta "deloused.. and frances the mute"
at the drive in "relationship of command"
idlewild "in remote part"
chris de burgh "spanish train..."
The music is great, but more so, the images the songs created in my head, and the way the pictures hit me, were formative in my life.
6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2